Why do the neocons and otherwise warmongers always try to involve the innocents in their ambitions for worldwide domination and intimidations?

Yesterday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke at Purdue University. Articles on the event by the Lafayette Indiana Journal and Courier and the Associated Press report that Powell “said he supported President Bush’s decision to send more U.S. troops to Iraq”:

More: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/23/ap-powell-escalation

It is a subject that needs explanation or at least some sort of explanation. Don't you think?